♻ Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is a framework of standard business practices for building software. ☝🏻Its primary purpose is to determine the software delivery workflow with a detailed explanation of each phase - initiation of the project, planning, coding, testing, and deploying the product. 

The software development life cycle covers the whole process of product development to meet customer requirements. Usually, there are specific stages of the workflow. They are:

✔ Gathering requirements; 

✔ Design;

✔ Development;

✔ Testing;

✔ Deployment;

✔ Maintenance (Tech Support). 

📝 The first stage is about collecting all the necessary information, such as a generated concept of the project and requirements for the product. As a result, the project team receives the detected list of requirements structured in the Software Requirement Specification. The team's main goal is to build a product available to cover all the customer's needs.

📐 The design stage supposes the creation of the software architecture. This is a fundamental basis for the further product.

🛠 Development begins with software design. Developers implement all the software components based on it. 

⚙️ Quality Assurance is supposed to maintain during all the SDLC. Although, testing itself begins only when the code is completed and the project is deployed in the testing environment. Testers execute and report all the defects found. As soon as all bugs are fixed, then the product may be called as verified and approved for deployment.

💎 Deployment to the production environment is a crucial moment of the SDLC of every project. Finally, end users are welcome to use the product.

🩹 If a customer needs something to be fixed in the product or to provide improvement, then Maintenance takes its place. 

So, at this stage, all the issues should be resolved and deployed to live.   

🧡 Thank you for your attention. You are welcome to handle the Testing stage of SDLC with TestCaseLab!

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Test Management Tool should be user-friendly 🤗. It is essential to design the interface so the QA Engineer can interact with the documentation in any desired way.

🗣 Let’s consider in more detail the usability of interacting with Test Cases in TestCaseLab.

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📌First of all, the user is offered to generate a structure of categories and subcategories to keep Test Cases structured and divided by hierarchy. Creating, duplicating, editing, and deleting functions are easy to use from the beginning 🤩. In addition, changing the structure of the categories’ tree (Suite Tree) simplifies the workflow and saves the user time.

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🌟 One of the main benefits of the TestCaseLab interface is an opportunity to view and edit Test Cases on one page. You do not need to go into edit mode to update the details. Double-click on the necessary field allows you to make changes immediately. Once changes are made, click outside the field to deactivate it. As a result, the changes are saved, and the Test Case is always up to date.

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All the changes provided to the Test Case are recorded in the Audit log. This is the history of interactions with the item. It is always easy to find out who made changes, when, and what exactly was done.

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🔍Search through all the Project data allows you to find the required item in one moment. The user just has to enter the first characters to find the matches and get the results list.

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🤩Also, TestCaseLab offers teammates the ability to collaborate on the same project at the same time. Changes are provided simultaneously to all participants. 

So, when your teammate works on the Test Case, you can observe his actions in real-time. As soon as updates are submitted, you will see them as well. 

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🤓 Was it useful? You’re very welcome to join TestCaseLab if you’re not still. We do our best to meet all the needs of the QA community.

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Test execution is the primary process of the Quality Assurance phase in SDLC 🕒. QA engineers pass sets of tests collected in the test plan to ensure that the product functions correctly and that there are no issues while using it ✅.

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🛠 To streamline the process of running tests, TestCaseLab provides users with the opportunity to set statuses for each Test Case on execution. The Not Tested status applies for all the items added to the current Test Run by default. This means that Test Run hasn't been started yet. Once at least one Test Case receives a different status from the list, the Test Run will be automatically placed in the 'In Progress' category 📈.

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Highly detailed statistics allow users to see the changes made in the Test Run on a progress bar. Each color indicates a particular state: 

🟢 Green - the successful completion of the Test Case execution.

🔴 Red - the test failure.

🟡 Yellow - Test Case blockage and should be retested later.

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🔍The progress bar is always up to date and provides detailed information on the number of Test Cases of each status. It shows their percentage. For your convenience, click any color to filter the Test Cases list in the Test Run.

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When a Test Case is assigned a Failed status, TestCaseLab will display a Bug button. Clicking on it opens a modal window. It includes all the necessary fields to report a bug in a task management tool integrated with TestCaseLab.

The link to the generated ticket will be linked to your test results data and will always be available in the relevant Test Run reports.

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❓Are there any questions left?

Our Support Team is always ready to help ✉️ support@testcaselab.com

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